The slave trade starts as soon as Portuguese raiders start trawling the west coast of Africa, as you suggest, but the slaves were going to Europe, not the Americas. This idiot probably doesn’t know this.
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It has to be said as well that when the Portuguese invaded what is today Brazil, colonies were not yet permanent which is why project 1619 starts with the dutch and permanent chattel slavery in the Americas.
Wait wait next porridge-brains is going to jump in and make the point that the Atlantic slave trade isn't the same as the *Trans*Atlantic slave trade, and then find some way of being a TERF about that distinction. 🙄
Yes, but also to the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic such as Madeira and the Azores which is where the combination of African slavery and sugar plantations really begins, even before Columbus.
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